The Green Fields Of Foreverland

Hangman In The Shadow

The clock may not mean much to rabbits and owls
Depending on darkness and light
To fly in the night or to hide in a hole
We can do both fairly well

But what is this ticking that saves us from sleep
From light and from warm peace of mind?
It's tin and it's cold and is brutal in years
It's emptiness and broken tears

We'll lie under blossom, we'll dance in the field
'Til rocks start to fall from the sky
We'll swim in the river, and bathe in the sea
And lay 'til our bodies are dry

Then what is this beating that saves me from sleep?
It's wondering, waiting to try
The whole world around me is solemn and old
And loneliness answers my sigh

Evensong

For a bit of loyalty
I would pay you handsomely
While you're killing time
You could help fill mine
With a bit of honesty

If you're feeling kind of beat
If you're feeling incomplete
Don't be too surprised
Open up your eyes
There's a harsh reality

When a person's sad and lonely
Sometimes they will cry
When the sun comes out to meet them
Then their tears run dry

And it's nearly not so bad
When you learn of how to add up
All the good around
And you can paint the town
With a sad kind of beauty

When a person's sad and lonely
Sometimes they will cry
When the sun comes out to meet them
Then their tears run dry

Life is hard and life is cruel
If you often blow your cool
When hope lets you down
And you feel a clown
For there's little honesty

For a bit of loyalty
I would pay you handsomely
With music as sweet as wine
Rapture that's divine
If you keep me company
You could sing along with my evensong
It might ease the drudgery

Renew & Restore

In the morning he will rise
When the matches are replaced
Then the ember left will soon become
A fire to be embraced
It will burn all around
For as far as the eye can see
'Til it seems there'll never be a time
To run and be carefree

Blow, blow
Don't let go
Renew and restore
Walk out the door
Renew, restore

Will a broken spirit help
Can it help in any way
'Cos he's empty and quite heavy now
With nothing left to say
And it happened very fast
Only in a year or two
While the circle closed around him
It was cold and old and blue

Blow, blow
Don't let go
Renew and restore
Walk out the door
Renew, restore
Blow, blow
Don't let go
Renew and restore
Walk out the door
Not any more

Emanuelle, Skating On Thin Ice

He may want to save you
For there's nothing I can do
I could entertain you
But it's making me so blue

And we've been here before
And I've walked out the door
When the ice looks decidedly thin
So I pull myself out, take a look all about
Soon I'm skating around
I've fallen back in

He may be the great thing
So there's nothing I can do
I just want to love here
Until it's time to move

Will he smile at me back
Try to tell me the facts
When the strangers don't harbour a care?
For the stories we're sold, when we're seven years old
Of the princes of old, it's not really fair

He may want to save you
For there's nothing I can do
I could entertain you
But there's too much, too much to lose

Rose I Love You

Around the world
There's millions like you
Right under our feet
How should you compete?

There's pictures to show
The big brains who know
And newspapers tell
Of fashion and wealth

Around the world
I love you the same
It's not for your looks
It's not for your name

The thorns won't help
To me you're unique
The tigers will go
The tigers are weak

Around the world
Before we were tamed
We were very small
But now we stand tall

Enchanted Place

I'm not looking for a king in some fancy land
I'm not looking for a prisoner to take my hand
Those old scenes with glory dreams are so very dull to see

People do you wrong or do you right, some pass you by
Pain and pleasure mixed together proves that we're alive
For the presence of the caterpillar brings the butterfly

Though we might be alone
And nothing can belong to you
Though we might be alone

There's a girl I know who talks to me and feels the same
There's a girl I know who helps to take away the pain
With the lion that's beside us we are in a special place

Until it's time to go I'll stay with her not asking how
Got to try our best to stay within the here and now
With the trumpet and the violin and not the final bow

Though we might be alone
There's something better about two
Though we might be alone
It may be true

Tree Lullaby

Get watered and you'll grow
Love and you will know
All the lovely things there are to see

Drink the flavour in
Slowly to begin
Basking in the arbour with the trees

Try and fight disease
Grow as you please
Years come, years go
Don't fall to the forest floor

When it's too dark
Don't lose your heart
There's a silver moon above
Don't give up your search for love

Spring the forest wakes
Summer blossom makes
Autumn appear threatening distant freeze

Leaves fall to the ground
Winter comes around
Temporarily barren ill at ease

If they cut you down
Steal you from the ground
Return from whence you came
Life's a strange and fragile game

Reach up very high
Reach up to the sky
Turning in for shelter when you need

Have water and you'll grow
Love and you will know
Of the many ways life can lead

Dirty Snow For The Broken Ground

At the party what was happening
With the colour that was dazzling
And the passport smiles making everything worthwhile
Shining offering a show

They can have their fame and holidays
I will try to think of other ways
What is bad I know and the good is hard to show
But I'm hoping for a time

We could dream about a pretty place
You could stare into a stranger's face
All in awe of her charm, then whisper false alarm
Still they kick around the town

But if not for you
Then I mightn't do the things I wanted to
And if not for me...
Wait and see, wait and see...

I will not be proud of jewellery
But it's okay you can visit me
On the steps of my door, tell the truth and nothing more
Magic over broken ground

But my doorstep has seen better days
People stay away it's out of place
'Cos it's all gone wrong to be truthful as a song
Footsteps dirty in the snow

Weathershow

People wait
They sit in and watch the telephone
People cry
When all they're wanting turns out wrong

It's strange
Rearrange
It's just change

Be a girl
See how hopeless she can be
With the boy
Who gets you on a see-through lead

It's strange
Rearrange
It's just change

And the rain
Never stops for anyone
And the cold
Just gets worse while we grow old
The one
Who loves the sun
Here they come

A Chapter In The Life Of Mathiew

I will change my mind a hundred times today
I don't know where to go
I really want to play
I want to be with people who can show me love
I want to be with people who I'm worthy of...

And so, kiss them goodbye
And so, kiss them goodbye

When Mathiew played guitar he put it in a cage
He showed it to the people
They said he had it made
He left it at the counter of the lost and found
He wanted to see clearer so he walked around

And so kiss them goodbye
And so kiss them goodbye
And so kiss them goodbye
And so kiss them goodbye

Soon he found the place where people learn to act
Where people can decide
Then it can't go back
God and angels love, easy smile and pray but
I will change my mind a hundred times today...

So kiss them goodbye
And so kiss them goodbye
So kiss them goodbye
And so kiss them goodbye
It's brave to cry

To Salt A Scar

Even still they are wondering
Is it so and is it real?
Touch and see and breathe it in
Only one knows how to feel

Cowboy, cowboy feel

Late at night he is wandering
For a poor misguided star
Dirt and sand what loves you best?
Time then money, salt and scar

In the dark when I think of you
Flesh and focus all around
Skin then dust and disappear
Only some know how to feel

Cowboy, cowboy feel
Cowboy, cowboy feel

Swansong For You

Let The Good Times Begin

Oh, loneliness
Lonely times we're spending
Life made in dreams
Lost in sleep descending
If all we see is all to believe
Then let the music play
Let's not think of tomorrow

Friends that I know
Knew that I was searching
Falling in love
But it wasn't working
Paul said "What we see is solely chemistry"
So let the music play
Let's not think of tomorrow

Let's pledge a year to the stars
And nighttime
Safe from the day
There is life without time
And when light draws near we'll disappear
The way that dreamers do
In sleep intoxicating

Oh, loneliness
Lonely times we're spending
Life made in dreams
Lost in sleep descending
If all we see is all to believe
Then Billy bring your gin
Let the good times begin

Partner In Crime

It happened in the summer, not so very long ago.
It was so warm and humid Elsie would go down to the old wood and pray for
the wind to come.
She had a friend who swore you could evoke the angels simply by prayer.
She said "There are angels for every desire but you must believe, you have
to believe."
So by the time the sun was buried along with the stale air a plan had
formed very clearly in her mind.
She was a lonely girl of around twenty or so, and as she knelt down to pray
in the old wood under the town, her heart would beg and plead:

I desire a partner in crime
I've grown tired of endless crying
I desire a partner in crime
I've grown tired of endless crying
Crying for nothing

And the roses hung their weary heads like people do when they are heavy
and without hope. The seasons passed January, February under the trees
and there were tulips amongst the firs. Elsie was twenty-three twenty-four
twenty-five and the underpass was dark and dense with light at the seams
where the trees were broken and the branches were reaching out for they
had witnessed her prayers, and there was promise in the wind, a promise
of better things.

I desire a partner in crime
I've grown tired of endless crying
I desire a partner in crime
I've grown tired of endless crying
Crying for nothing

The years flowed on and on like the wine that celebrated marriages of
friends and sisters. Elsie began to think that even if her wish
materialized she could not sacrifice a life that was so familiar: Lonely,
sad with an almost religious quality.
She remembered times spent in the old wood deep in prayer. Aching,
begging - thinking her heart might burst. Her friend had moved away
unannounced. She'd disappeared. There was no belief. And longer and
longer there was less to give. Less love to give. Of course there'd been
lovers but nothing close to what she'd hoped for. Before she'd felt electricity
swelling in her palms - but not now. Limp and hopeless life continued but
it wasn't really living. All she'd ever dreamed wished and yearned for had
been stolen and shot down:

And the sky it echoed a warning
And eternity was calling
And the sky it echoed a warning
And eternity was calling
Calling for nothing

Falling From Grace

You make me satisfied
You only want to ride
But that's alright by me
We happen to be free
For what tomorrow brings
No peace and broken wings
It may have been so good
But now it's understood
'Twas just a night

If I could tear my heart
And keep it miles apart
From love of beast or man
And never give a damn
If I could learn to lie
And never show my pride
I'd be just like the rest
Be someone I detest

I'm always looking for the sun
I'm always looking for the sun to shine

Love...
Destroys the best of us
Then leaves the rest of us
Thinking perhaps we'll die
Yet still we stay alive
Lost in a hollow frame
With lonely tears remain
Not knowing our life's worth
Dragging around the earth
How false the light

You make me satisfied
You only want to ride
But that's alright by me
We happen to be free
And if we fall from grace
At least we had a taste
Of something more than this
Unresolved black abyss

I'm always looking for the sun
I'm always looking for the sun
I'm always looking for the sun
I'm only looking for the sun to shine

Loretta Young

Loretta you're young
Loretta you'll learn
When someone takes you and loves you
And loves you
For I was young too
With trouble like you
It hurts when you throw love away

Leave history for widows
Wipe his story from windows
Leave history for widows
And learn to live again

This old dusty house
With it's dark, dampened past
Your heart is broken
So broken
With a broom from the wall
Sweep it away
We're not sinless or stainless
He'll arrange this

Come down from your frozen ivory tower
It hurts when you give love away
But you'll get it right someday
Loretta you're young
Loretta you'll learn
When someone takes you and loves you
And loves you...

Sister Woman

He don't love you but it's alright
He don't love you but it's alright
Sisterwoman, you're all I've got
When he's got nothing to do
He'll wanna spend some time with you
It's true that no one is to blame
Bad lovin's always been the same
He'll push it in then push you out
I don't think that's what love's about
When you ain't got no one you act like something's amputated
When you aint got no one it feels so very strange
Outside you are strong
Inside you are dying
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday is a step to the grave
I'll stick with you until the death
You gave me life you gave me breath
Through blood and tears you cried my name
No other bond would be the same
In silence I will pray for you
For some love will pull you through
Listen...
He don't love you but it's alright
He don't love you but it's alright
Sisterwoman, you're all I've got

Solace for Pain

Help me when I'm sad and lonely
I would never do you harm
But this life is unfamiliar
I don't mean to cause alarm
If I were to put the big light out
Surely there would be an end?
If I were to face a new day
Surely I would need a friend?

Sir you do possess such kind eyes
Many are so vacant where
Ought to be a patient tenderness
I would take my refuge there
Sir you do possess such kind eyes
Like a saint in books of old
Painted with a hue of prophecy
Speak the fate we must behold:

When the swallow has flown
And the night is getting cold
Turn away from hopelessness
There'll be solace for your pain
Someday
Someday
Someday...

Flood

Rain is falling from the sky
It touches everything
Brings new life...

He came in April
The month of rain
Sweeter than anything
It changed my life
To know what love is
Love in the water
Our hearts were happy then
Loving each other

There is sorrow in the eyes
Of the people in my life
They are hungry
They can't see
Pray for a flood
To swallow us up

He left in June you see
Left me dry
Blood chilled with bitterness
There was another...
With the storm clouds above me
I wait for rain
And look to the mountaintops
To hear his voice

There is sorrow in the eyes
Of the people in my life
They are hungry
They can't see
Pray for a flood
Pray for a flood
Pray for a flood
Pray for a flood

Pretty Things

Do you like pretty things?
Would you caress broken wings?
To truly smile, to face the day
Do you like pretty things?

And in time did you know
Pretty things always go?
A smile can never go away
It ought to be the face today

Castles melt in the sand
But you could still touch my hand
And have a dream, then go away
If you like pretty things

Can you mend broken wings?
Do you know of these things?
First at a glance you'd think you might
If you like pretty things

There Is No Greater Gold

Love used to be a stranger to me
Love was so disappointing
I was waiting for a sign
I was looking for some company
So I took a walk outside
What a lucky day

I saw the devil waiting for me
He'd bullets and green paper
He'd been walking through the earth
Swinging to and fro and down in it*
As I turned to walk away
That's when I saw your face...

Love, there is nothing better than this
Love, think of all the chances we miss
See the people walking by
With their mobile and computer eyes
If they'd just afford the time
There is no greater gold

Love, I don't think I'll see you again
It isn't easy you say we're friends
When you opened up your heart
Just enough to make me see again
When you stopped to take my hand
It was meant this way
It was meant this way

*Quotation from the Book of Job 1.6

There Was Magic, Then

When I was a girl, I dreamt of dancing
I dreamt of many things the heart could hold
I'd nurse my doll, would love and care for him
Would breathe life into him
For I believed
The world was grand with many precious things
Fine air, such precious things
It was my world
The wind would blow wild with imaginings
I was so happy in my little world

For the days were long in the summertime
With the sweetest taste in the summertime
There were secrets made in the summertime
There was magic...

Now I have grown and life is kind to me
I have some misery but don't we all?
Our path is so long that many lose their way
Longing with everyday for what went wrong?

For the days were long in the summertime
With the sweetest taste in the summertime
There were secrets made in the summertime
There was magic...

Below the sky, lost children find their way
Weaving through life's highway through joy, through pain
When summer has gone darkness can swallow you
And happy times once new
Will fade to grey
Yet, if my dreams were to all burn today
I wouldn't run away, call me a fool
For I believe
And if I never see
If it's denied to me, quite lost I'd say

Oh the days were long in the summertime
With the sweetest taste in the summertime
There were secrets made in the summertime
There was magic...
Oh the days were long in the summertime
With the sweetest taste in the summertime
There were secrets made in the summertime
There was magic

Non Albums Tracks

Evensong (French Version)

( Weathershow EP )

Pour un peu de dévouement
Je te paierais largement
Seule tu perds ton temps
Donne moi un moment
Sincèrement et honnêtement

Si tu te sens malheureux
Si ta vie te semble creuse
Ne sois pas surpris
Que tes jours se brisent
Et tes heures soient douloureuses

Quand on est triste et solitaire
On ne sait que faire
Il faut lever les yeux plus haut
Voir les choses plus clair

Regarde la vie autour de toi
Fais face à la beauté qu'il y a
Tu peux chanter et danser
Avec toute ta volonté
Il ne faut pas penser qu'à soi

Quand on est triste et solitaire
On ne sait que faire
Il faut lever les yeux plus haut
Voir les choses plus claires

La vie est dure et cruelle
A en perdre la cervelle
Et rester dans l'espoir
Mais il faut y croire
Car il n'y a rien sans elle

Pour un peu de dévouement
Je te paierais largement
Ma musique enchantée
Mon coeur enflammé
Nous te tiendrons compagnie
Partage avec moi les douces mélodies
Nous avons tout le temps

Going Home

( Falling From Grace EP )

Seems you have forgotten
How to know your feelings
Since you have forgotten
I'm going home

You were often hot, dear
Then you'd drop to deep freeze
I'd be down on my knees
And you'd say "no"

You were once a lifeline
Best friend and a lover
Unlike any other
You broke that spell

Now there's only questions
Answers never find you
They will only bind you
Fate suits you well

Just let go
Listen to the traffic
Flowing with breeze
Wonder where they're off to?
I'm almost there

Maybe in this lifetime
Someone soon will find me
If their soul is smiling
I'll know it well

Hold Back A Thousand Hours

( Falling From Grace EP )

Hold back a thousand hours
Though some day our eyes will meet
Show me your gentle face
For I see the treasure there


Try to communicate together
For we are one
Lay back on your sleepy head
And feel love against our skin

How many suns will set
Before my true love draws near?
Hold back a thousand hours
For one day our eyes will meet

October's Sky

( Falling From Grace EP )

We were far from home out travelling
Underneath October's sky
They're safe and warm, we're riding
Trying to keep a dream alive

Later when they turned the lights on
I could see the distance go
Never had I felt so lonesome
How were they supposed to know?

I love you

When will we stop feeling haunted?
For our ancient love must die
Never had the stars shone brighter
Underneath October's sky